desvencijado

adj.

broken-down, shabby, rickety, ruinous.

past part.

past participle of spanish verb: desvencijar.

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desvencijado

► participio pasado

1→ {{link=desvencijar}}desvencijar

► adjetivo

1 rickety, broken-down, dilapidated

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ADJ [silla, mueble] rickety; [máquina] broken-down

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-da adjetivo <silla/cama> rickety; <coche> dilapidated, beat-up (AmE colloq), clapped-out (BrE colloq)

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= rickety, decrepit, dilapidated, ramshackle.

Ex. Only the nomads travel by camel, other desert travellers have to depend on aged and rickety vehicles.

Ex. No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.

Ex. China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.

Ex. The ramshackle village clings like a limpet to the cliffs.

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-da adjetivo <silla/cama> rickety; <coche> dilapidated, beat-up (AmE colloq), clapped-out (BrE colloq)

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= rickety, decrepit, dilapidated, ramshackle.

Ex: Only the nomads travel by camel, other desert travellers have to depend on aged and rickety vehicles.

Ex: No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.

Ex: China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.

Ex: The ramshackle village clings like a limpet to the cliffs.

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desvencijado -da

adjective

‹silla/cama› rickety, dilapidated; ‹coche› dilapidated, beat-up (AmE colloq), clapped-out (BrE colloq)

la ventana quedó desvencijada the window was almost off its hinges

ha sido un día agotador, estoy desvencijado (fam); it's been an exhausting day, I'm whacked o dead beat o bushed (colloq)

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Del verbo desvencijar: (conjugate desvencijar)

desvencijado es:

el participio

desvencijado

◊ -da adjetivo ‹silla/cama› rickety;

‹coche› dilapidated, beat-up (AmE colloq), clapped-out (BrE colloq)
desvencijado,-a adjetivo ramshackle, rickety
'desvencijado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desvencijada
English:
rickety

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desvencijado, -a adj

[mesa, armario] rickety; [puerta, vehículo] battered; [estructura] ramshackle, tumbledown

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desvencijado

adj rickety

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desvencijado, -da adj

: dilapidated, rickety